Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women?

Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by mattigames on Sunday May 12, 2019 @05:44AM (#19891000)

But there is a chance you could skip some important judgement by doing blind auditions, for example if someone has sociopathic behaviors that will damage the orchestra team in the long run and that personality trait may have been clear in a face-to-face interview but not so much in a blind one.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by necovek on Sunday May 12, 2019 @05:52AM (#19891017)

Which you can establish by having a non-musical person (commonly HR person in tech) have an independent screening 1st phase interview.

In theory, such a person should be better suited to such evaluation too: it's not uncommon to have psychology majors in HR departments, for instance.

And finally, once you find someone is detrimenal to the team (the orchestra), you can still fire them (I know it might be harder).

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by wtdata on Sunday May 12, 2019 @08:55AM (#19891589)

If you have a non musical person doing a first - non-blind - screening, than the outcome of the all process becomes non-blind anyway.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by devteambravo on Sunday May 12, 2019 @05:48AM (#19891006)

That is very interesting. Art being compared to business. Should we censor talent to benefit the whole? This isn't a dev team with production deadlines... And yet, where do we draw the line? The artists know.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by pbhjpbhj on Sunday May 12, 2019 @06:04AM (#19891048)

If you're a working artist then art is business. Most (all?) working artists make compromises in their art for business reasons IME. Professional artists IME (fine art, photography, ceramics) very much operate with production deadlines.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by skookumchuck on Sunday May 12, 2019 @05:59AM (#19891034)

Why do "we" need to draw a line? I couldn't care less who they hire.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by replyguy912 on Sunday May 12, 2019 @08:26AM (#19891476)

Must be pretty cool to able to identify sociopaths just by "lookin' them in the eye!"

The more I do interviews and get assigned the "culture & fit" asessment role, the more depressed I get. It's really just code for the bias "looks and acts like me => good"

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